C's is one of Shanghai's most well-know and enduring dive bars, and they've got the toilets to prove it. With graffiti all over the walls, loud music blasting throughout its cavernous rooms, and some of the cheapest drinks in town, C's is a mainstay on the Shanghai underground music scene -- look for weekly electronic nights from independent promoters -- but even if you're not there for the music, it's one of the best places in town to get utterly blitzed. Crowd is young, young, young, and transient: high school students, younger out-of-town Chinese, English teachers, the unemployed, and the unemployable. On the weekends, cultures clash on the dance floors to insanely bad Top 40 Hip hop, and that's a good thing. Never any cover. Check the listings for special electronic music one-offs, which are frequent.

The Boom Bap returns for Valentine’s Donuts, for a celebration of the genius of producer J-Dilla. DJs LOKE and Black Daniels hope to share their love for the artist who changed Hip Hop sampling forever. Expect some R & B, instrumentals...

For all your in-town ravers, a special little CNY shindig to kick off the Year of the Pig. Expect a mix of curated proggy, groovy, trancy electronic music to tingle your eardrums and make you go OINK! DJ's Aktüman, Ancient Alias and...

Shanghai is set to party like it’s 2009 again, my friends, with the triumphant return of lovely and mercurial DJ talent, the one and only Mr. Blaise Deville. He's in town for one night only, winging his way across vast oceans to be with us one more time Saturday night at The Shelter .
In anticipation of the joyous occasion,...
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